Senior Manager, Product Management

Company Description

Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at scale. Covista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development. Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But what makes working at Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers.

We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

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Job Description

Covista is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. As the Director of AI Product Management, you will be a key leader in IT products and services for 300,000+ students and 10,000 employees, across 5 institutions and 27 campus locations. In this role, the Director will be accountable for overseeing and managing all aspects of an organization's information technology systems and operations for the function in which it is assigned.

People/Talent leadership

• Responsible for overseeing multiple teams, departments, or functions within an organization. This may include managing multiple projects, budgets, and resources across various areas of IT. Attracts, hires, and builds high-performing teams, empowers people and rewards results; achieves results through clearly articulated goals, discernment, priorities, and a belief in the positive intentions of our employees. Takes an active role in developing talent. Builds and enables a highly engaged, high performing team. Strong communicator.

Operational Leadership:

• Demonstrates organizational agility and an ability to build a high-performance culture which models the willingness, leadership, and courage to challenge the status quo; fosters creativity; problem solves/acts quickly to activate change, innovation, and resilience. Delivers a highly stable, robust environment for Covista and enables our business. Thinks “human first” in operational experiences delivered. Shows discipline of execution and delivery.

Financial leadership:

• Understands the organization’s financial processes. Prepares, justifies, and administers her/his budget. Oversees procurement and contracting to achieve desired results. Monitors expenditures and uses cost benefit thinking to (re)set priorities. Focuses on value creation for Covista – this includes IT centric cost management and business results. Drives a fiscal disciplined behavior in her/his organization. Thinks long term and short term while managing finance and value creation.

Technical leadership:

• Demonstrates breadth and depth of professional/technical skills and capabilities required for position; shares knowledge; sets or contributes to the organization's direction within an area of expertise. Leads to drive value for Covista through technology. Influences with fluency on technology related change.

Strategic Leadership:

• They collaborate with executive management and other senior leaders to align IT initiatives with business objectives. Demonstrates the process of using well considered tactics to establish/communicate a vision for an organization or one of its parts. Fluently thinks between needs for today, while planning for the near and far future. Understand the competitive landscape, industry directions. Aligns with Covista IT & Digital strategy, builds their own game plan, communicates and delivers on the strategy.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related discipline Required.
• Master's Degree Preferred.
• Ten (10) plus years years of IT work experience. 
• Five (5) plus years years of managerial and supervisory experiences.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities.
• Advanced level of technical knowledge and experience.
• Strong project management, process, technical and financial management knowledge.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple projects and multiple employees simultaneously

Additional Information

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $100,171.61 and $181,034.70. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

Covista offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
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  You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation